Key Features

· Open to all federal, state, and local agencies
· Multiple year task orders
· Total systems solutions
· Flexible options
· Rapid award cycle

Flexibility

· Wide selection of solution providers
· Large businesses
· Small businesses
· 8(a) and women owned businesses
· Competitive and directed source task orders
· Multiple contract types - firm fixed price, cost plus fixed fee,
  cost plus award fee, and time & materials

Easy to Use

· One-stop shopping
· Dedicated staff to ensure expeditious handling of all task
  order transactions
· Streamlined task order award methods
· Alternate dispute resolution provisions

Performance Management

· Emphasize performance based statements of work
· Emphasize past performance as an evaluation factor on
  task orders
· Poor past performance as contractor exclusion criteria
· Web accessible contractor past performance database for
  use in evaluating task order proposals

Socioeconomic Goals

· Customer credits for small, disadvantaged and women owned
  business can be met using ITOP 8(a) and small businesses